Monsanto has just announced it’s giving up on most of Europe: people there don’t want GMO food. In America, the struggle is for labeling GMOs.

This is some kind of “fairness doctrine.” Let the US consumer decide what kind of food to buy. Choice. It’s the American way, right?

No, actually it isn’t. The evidence gathered over the last 10 years is staggering. GMO food and the herbicides sprayed on them constitute a major health hazard, to say the least.

And this doesn’t begin to cover the lying business practices of Monsanto...

Sepp Hasslberger's insight:

Let's label GMOs is a distraction from the real issue. That stuff should never have been planted or grown in the first place. GMOs are damaging the health of animals (and humans) who eat them. They are damaging the environment and whole eco-systems of bugs and soil bacteria.

Humanity is facing a a major crisis: our immediate environment is being riddled with pesticides, making us unhealthy faster than we can study the effects. In addition, these pesticides are contributing to a massive reduction in our bee population and a general decline in soil health.

Paul Stamets, the world’s leading mycologist, filed a patent in 2001 that was intentionally given little attention. In the words of pesticide industry executives, this patent represents “The most disruptive technology that we have ever witnessed.”

Research into the health effects associated with vitamin D continued to be strong in 2014. The number of publications with vitamin D in the title or abstract listed at pubmed.gov increased from 3,119 in 2011 to 3,919 in 2014.

Seven vitamin D researchers (listed after this report) worked together to pick the 20 papers in 2014 that made the most contribution to understanding the health effects of vitamin D in 2014.

No one refutes the fact that vitamin D is beneficial to the skeletal system. There are many studies (randomized controlled trials [RCT] and also epidemiological) that support this hypothesis.

What is at odds is whether or not vitamin D is beneficial to the non-skeletal system. There are many observational (epidemiological, or association) studies that show vitamin D is beneficial, and many RCTs that show it isn't.

Does that mean that vitamin D does not aid in disease prevention?

Or does it mean that the RCT model does not work for nutrients?

Sepp Hasslberger's insight:

Vitamin D research of 2014 summarised by seven of the researchers in the field - via Orthomolecular.org

Monsanto and the genetic engineering lobby have incessantly proclaimed, with little or no evidence whatsoever, that these controversial crops and foods will reduce pesticide use, eliminate world hunger, cure disease, mitigate climate change and vastly improve public health.

However, a close look at their actual business practices, sales figures, political lobbying and bullying in court (suing hundreds of farmers for the “crime” of saving seeds) reveal Monsanto’s true goals: to monopolize the global market for seeds, foods and fiber, and to sell as many toxic herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides as possible.

An increasing number of scientists and consumer advocates warn that current gene-splicing techniques are crude, inexact and unpredictable, and that the toxic chemicals, especially Monsanto’s Roundup, sprayed on these genetically engineered seeds and plants are incredibly dangerous.

"Certainly we want mandatory labeling of GMOs at the state level (the feds are obviously too corrupt to trust on GMO labeling). But the main reason we want labeling is to defend ourselves, our families and the environment from further assault—by boycotting and driving GMO food, animal feed (most GMOs go into animal feed and biofuels, not human food), and Roundup off the market."

Another flu death of an otherwise healthy person after receiving the flu vaccine has been reported in Wisconsin.

WISN in Wisconsin is reporting that 26-year-old Katherine McQuestion has died from flu complications, after she received the flu shot. Katherine was reportedly a newlywed, and was required to receive the flu shot as part of her employment. She was a radiology technician and worked at St. Catherine's Medical Center in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin according to WISN.

McQuestion’s mother said her daughter was healthy, beautiful and smart. She married in September, and her funeral was held on Tuesday.

A health official interviewed by WISN stated that this is “rare”, and that everyone should get their flu shot.

A review of the quarterly reports issued by the Department of Justice showing cases in which the government has paid out damages for vaccine injuries and deaths clearly shows that the majority of cases are awarded to flu vaccine victims.

- See more at: http://vaccineimpact.com/2015/why-are-so-many-healthy-people-dying-from-the-flu-after-receiving-the-flu-shot/#sthash.FHIRakcU.dpuf

Sepp Hasslberger's insight:

Italy withdrew the flu vaccine some months ago because of several deaths after vaccination. Apparently the vaccine is still being pushed in the US, although now, reports of deaths after flu vaccination start to accumulate...

Following a disgraceful EU stitch-up, the European Parliament today passed a law permitting EU-wide GMO crop cultivation. With regulation and safeguards devolved to member states, and only limited 'opt-out' rights, it is a recipe for chaos that GM corporations will ruthlessly exploit.

It was bound to happen... the EU bureaucracy, including what laughingly passes for a parliament, just can't find a way to justify doing what most Europeans want - keep GMOs out of our fields and off our plates. International food industry including Big Ag are formidable players and governments bend to them.

EU approves GMOs, leaves decisions to implement to individual countries. England is going GMO while Wales and Scotland will remain GMO free. Note that Indian Basmati rice was recently rejected by EU on grounds of contamination. Is this double standard? Or is there something more sinister going on?

Wi-Fi and cellular devices, and their associated electromagnetic fields, are everywhere these days. Even if we want to, we can’t eliminate our exposure to electromagnetic radiation.

But, a new study suggests that we may need to limit our children's exposure, when possible. Thereport, published in the Journal of Microscopy and Ultrastructure is titled “Why children absorb more microwave radiation than adults: The consequences.”

From an analysis of others studies, the authors argue that children and adolescents are at considerable risk from devices that radiate microwaves (and that adults are at a lower, but still significant, risk). The following points were offered:

Children absorb a greater amount of microwave radiation than adults.

Fetuses are even more vulnerable than children. Therefore pregnant women should avoid exposing their fetus to microwave radiation.

Adolescent girls and women should not place cellphones in their bras or in hijabs (headscarf).

Cellphone manual warnings make clear an overexposure problem exists.

Government warnings have been issued but most of the public are unaware of such warnings.

Current exposure limits are inadequate and should be revised.

Wireless devices are radio transmitters, not toys. Selling toys that use them should be monitored more closely.

Sepp Hasslberger's insight:

WIFI and cell phone radiation - not something to be careless about, especially with children, says a new report that examines the available evidence...

Doctors call for rethink after large study finds prescribed pills could be associated with up to half a million extra deaths a year in US.

Doctors are calling for a rethink of the use of sleeping pills after a large study showed that the drugs carry a substantially increased risk of death for those who are prescribed them.

Commonly used sleeping pills, or "hypnotics", such as temazepam and zolpidem, which is prescribed for short-term insomnia, are associated with more than a fourfold risk of death, according to the study published in the BMJ Open journal.

The study was carried out in the US, where up to 10% of the adult population took sleeping pills in 2010. The authors estimate that sleeping pills may have been associated with 320,000 to 507,000 extra deaths in the US that year.

Since 1989, to counteract bio-terrorism, the U.S. has been testing live viruses including Ebola, Lasser Fever, at designated sites in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Monrovia.During World War II, Anthrax was tested on an uninhabited island off Scotland where human lives would not be in jeopardy.

Now that Ebola has been spreading, these test labs in Africa should be forced to close with full accountability of their activities documented.

In addition, free Ozone Gas therapy should be used IMMEDIATELY to combat Ebola. Ozone is 99% effective against viruses and is FREE.

Research and Development, Clinical trials for an Ebola vaccine are not needed. Vaccinating will put more people at risk of disease while pharmaceutical companies stand to make billions of dollars at the expense of human lives.

Sepp Hasslberger's insight:

It is a little known fact that the Ebola outbreak had its origin in US-run "bio-terrorism" laboratories in the affected African countries. Perhaps this petition can help spread that information...

All over the world, small farmers are being forced off their land to make way for corporate agriculture, writes GRAIN - and it's justified by the need to 'feed the world'.

But it's the small farmers that are the most productive, and the more their land is grabbed, the more global hunger increases. We must give them their land back!

A recent comprehensive survey by GRAIN, examining data from around the world, finds that while small farmers feed the world, they are doing so with just 24% of the world's farmland - or 17% if you leave out China and India.

If the yields achieved by Kenya's small farmers were matched by the country's large-scale operations, the country's agricultural output would double. In Central America, the region's food production would triple. If Russia's big farms were as productive as its small ones, output would increase by a factor of six...

Sepp Hasslberger's insight:

If we broke up the mega farm operations and parcelled out the land to small farmers all over the world, hunger would soon be a thing of the past.

If the findings in this paper are true, a vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV) is extremely unlikely to protect against cervical cancer.

According to this paper neither genetic predisposition nor HPV infections are necessary for the development of cervical cancer.

All cervical cancer cells investigated during the course of this study contained new abnormal karyotypes. The clonality (genetic makeup) of these new abnormal karyotypes indicates the cervical cancers originated with these karyotypes – NOT from a virus.

Once upon a time, the CDC claimed that roughly 36,000 people in the US died every year from the flu. Media sources parroted this figure over and over.

Lately, the CDC has chosen to change that estimate. It’s now between 3,000 and 49,000 flu deaths per year. That’s quite a loose range. Why does the CDC now waffle so egregiously?

Perhaps because they’ve been exposed…

In December of 2005, the British Medical Journal published a shocking report by Peter Doshi, which spelled out a delusion and created tremors throughout the halls of the CDC.

Here is a quote from Doshi’s report:

“[According to CDC statistics], ‘influenza and pneumonia’ took 62,034 lives in 2001—61,777 of which were attributable to pneumonia and 257 to flu, and in only 18 cases was the flu virus positively identified.”

You see, the CDC had created one category that combined flu and pneumonia deaths. Why did they do this? Because they self-servingly assumed that the pneumonia deaths were complications stemming from the flu.

This is an absurd assumption. Pneumonia has a number of causes. But even worse, in all the flu deaths, only 18 were traced directly to a flu virus.

Livestock consume up to 80 percent of the antibiotics used in the U.S., and the amount actually jumped by 16 percent between 2009 and 2012, according to a recent FDA report.

This rampant use of the drugs has led to “superbugs” that are becoming increasingly resistant to the antibiotics that are used to treat not just farm animals, but humans as well. In fact, almost 70 percent of the antibiotics given to these animals are classified as “medically important” for humans.

Researchers have directly compared the effects of commonly used antibiotics with those of various essential oils. One such study, from the March 2012 issue of the Journal of Animal Science, found that rosemary and oregano oils resulted in the same amount of growth in chickens as the antibiotic avilamycin, and that the oils killed bacteria, too. Additional findings have shown that essential oils help reduce salmonella in chickens, and another study found that a blend of several oils can limit the spread of salmonella among animals.

Sepp Hasslberger's insight:

Are essential oils just as good and less damaging than antibiotics used widely in animals? Maybe here is a solution...

On Jan 23, 2015, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) recommended pulling four dozen generic drugs because they were approved based on flawed clinical studies conducted in India.

A French inspection of GVK Biosciences in India revealed that “data manipulations of electrocardiograms during the conduct of some studies of generic medicines,” occurred for 5 years.

They said that the systematic and prolonged nature of these manipulations and the number of staff involved “cast doubt” on the integrity of the trial methodology and the reliability of the data generated.

Sepp Hasslberger's insight:

How long will it take for health departments of our countries to realise that they are being manipulated by the drug makers?

The strategic centerpiece of Monsanto PR is to focus on the promotion of one single compelling idea. The idea that they want you to believe in is that only they can produce enough for the future population.

They wish you to therefore believe that non-industrial systems of farming, such as all those which use agroecological methods, or SRI, or are localised and family-oriented, or which use organic methods, or non-GMO seeds, cannot feed the world.

What industry understands, and the food movement does not, is that what prevents total rejection of bland, industrialised, pesticide-laden, GMO food is the standard acceptance, especially in Western countries, of the overarching agribusiness argument that such food is necessary. It is necessary to feed the world.

So, if the food movement could show that famine is an empty threat then it would also have shown, by clear implication, that the chemical health risks and the ecological devastation that these technologies represent are what is unnecessary.

The movement would have shown that pesticides and GMOs exist solely to extract profit from the food chain.

A new kind of antibiotic has been developed by researchers at Oregon State University.

The new antibiotics are called PPMOs, which stand for peptide-conjugated phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomers. They are “a synthetic analog of DNA or RNA that has the ability to silence the expression of specific genes.”

The way that PPMO antibiotics will work is to, “specifically target the underlying genes of a bacterium.” In plain English, PPMOs will genetically modify bacteria.

One of many things to consider is that mitochondria, the energy centers of our cells, are very similar in structure and design to bacteria.

Could PPMOs (or other drugs that genetically modify bacteria) modify human mitochondria? If so, what are the consequences of having genetically modified mitochondria?

One consequence is that humans truly would be genetically modified. Perhaps that should be taken into consideration before developing drugs that genetically modify bacteria.

Sepp Hasslberger's insight:

You need to read this article before taking antibiotics the next time... make sure they are not the DNA-modifying types the author describes.

FED UP blows the lid off everything we thought we knew about food and weight loss, revealing a 30-year campaign by the food industry, aided by the U.S. government, to mislead and confuse the American public, resulting in one of the largest health epidemics in history.

From Katie Couric, Laurie David (Oscar winning producer of AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH) and director Stephanie Soechtig, FED UP will change the way you eat forever.

Sepp Hasslberger's insight:

Sugar and sweets ... one of the worst things we can get hooked on, but it's great business for the pharma and med complex...

On Sunday, millions of French protesters took the streets, insisting that freedom, especially the freedom of expression and the freedom to communicate, are part and parcel of our Western civilization.

In the European Union, the business operators who, every single day, year in year out, tirelessly bring food to the millions of Charlies and their leaders must do without that treasured freedom of speech. Their speech is prohibited before they say a word.

Their right to communicate freely was taken from them not because of what they said or intended to say, but because of what they are. They were Charlie long before everyone was Charlie.

Here is what the European legislators have to say about the freedom of speech when it comes to food business operators:

“Health claims shall be prohibited unless they comply with the general requirements in Chapter II and the specific requirements in this Chapter and are authorised in accordance with this Regulation and included in the lists of authorised claims ...”

Sepp Hasslberger's insight:

Free Speech is important?

Why then has the European bureaucracy forbidden to say anything about health and food unless specifically ok'd after making it through a long, complicated and prohibitively expensive approval process.

Canadian physician Dr. Andrew Moulden provided clear scientific evidence to prove that every dose of vaccine given to a child or an adult produces harm.

The truth that he uncovered was rejected by the conventional medical system and the pharmaceutical industry. Nevertheless, his warning and his message to America remains as a solid legacy of the man who stood up against big pharma and their program to vaccinate every person on the Earth.

Dr. Moulden died unexpectedly in November of 2013 at age 49.

Dr. Moulden stated:

What we have done to each other [with vaccines] has produced the most profound damage to humankind by humankind in the history of humanity.

And the reason why we got here is partly because of:

Our arrogance in thinking that we know everything. In physiology and medicine we do not know everything!

[Our greed] to advance our own self-interest to make money, to sell products and to advance corporate alliances. Commercialization has overtaken the fundamental human value ...

Sepp Hasslberger's insight:

Dr Moulden said it clearly, that vaccines are first and foremost harmful. He was hounded to death for it...

Leading mycologist Paul Stamets shares his work exploring the diverse role medicinal mushrooms may have in activating our immune systems and helping treat cancer, to new data supporting the role of fungi in biosecurity and the health of the bees that pollinate our planet.

Sepp Hasslberger's insight:

Great talk by Paul Stamets, the mushroom man. He found that turkey tail mushrooms can strengthen the immune system so much it will be able to overcome some very nasty cancers.

Some excellent data on bees and how they are dependent on the mushrooms' mycelium as well...

For the first time we can remember, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are going on the record, saying the flu vaccine won’t work this year. The warning comes just before the busiest part of flu season, in January and February.

But... Just when you thought perhaps the CDC could boost their credibility, they found a way to put a sales pitch on the end of their warning.

The CDC says if you do come down with the flu, there’s a cure. It’s just going to cost more money. Money that will end up profiting pharmaceutical giants, GlaxoSmithKline and Roche. CDC officials are urging doctors to prescribe two specific antiviral medications for any patients who come in with flu symptoms.

Sepp Hasslberger's insight:

Not only does the flu vaccine not work, it keeps killing people who take it. Italy has suspended the vaccine after more than a dozen deaths...

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